Consulting and management firm Essor Services announced plans to launch a data center in Burkina Faso, partnering with Costa Rican clean energy company Kaia Energy. In a recent LinkedIn post, Austin VanCampen, founder and president at Kaia Energy, said: ““We will be humbly. An interesting take on the issue of how to manage energy-hungry data centres comes from Burkina Faso, where plans have been proposed to launch a data centre powered in an unusual way. The facilities were officially inaugurated on Friday. Burkina Faso is actively exploring and implementing waste-to-energy projects as part of its efforts to improve sanitation, address energy needs, and promote sustainable development.